The Study of Anomalous Experience 3.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? PsychologyAnomalistic psychologyA2/A-levelAQA Created by: Amelia BarnesCreated on: 12-06-13 18:30 What is pseudoscience? A 'false' science. 1 of 25 What does it lack? Falsifiability; controlled, replicable research; and theory 2 of 25 What ability does it lack? Ability to change explanations 3 of 25 What happens if there are 2 competing explanations? The simpler one is generally preferred. 4 of 25 About from paranormal research, what else is unfalsifiable? Freudian hypotheses 5 of 25 What does Koch (1992) argue? That psychology lacks objective theories 6 of 25 What did Mousseau (2003) find? That paranormal research often matches standards of scientific research, or even betters it 7 of 25 What did the AAAS do? Accepted the Parapsychological Association as a member 8 of 25 What reasons are there to be concerned about paranormal research? Making money out of unfounded claims; not asking for evidence. 9 of 25 What do the Ganzfeld studies test? Extra-sensory perception (ESP) 10 of 25 What did Wooffitt (2007) suggest significant results could be due to? Researcher bias - sheep-goat effect in receiver's elaborations 11 of 25 Why are meta-analyses not appropriate to test Ganzfeld studies? Expectations affect the outcomes of meta-analysis - Honorton (1985) vs Hyman (1985) 12 of 25 What is the file-drawer effect? Results of meta-analyses change according to which studies are left out 13 of 25 What is the issue of control in the Ganzfeld studies? Lack of soundproofing and order of presentation 14 of 25 In evaluating Ganzfeld studies, what could positive results be due to? Phenomena being jealous 15 of 25 What did autoganzfeld do? Improved control 16 of 25 What did this lead to? Positive results by Honorton et al (1985) but not Milton and Wiseman (1999) 17 of 25 Who was this criticised by? Bem et al (2001) 18 of 25 What is a particular problem in parapsychology? Fraudulent research 19 of 25 What did expectatons in Wiseman and Greening's (2005) study lead to? Macro-PK reports 20 of 25 What did Hansel (1989) find? Lack of control - well controlled studies show no effect 21 of 25 What is the issue of ecological validity? Micro-PK may not represent paranormal action 22 of 25 What did Radin and Nelson (2003) find? Quality of studies not related to positive results and significant results not due to a small group of investigators nor to file-drawer effect 23 of 25 What did Bierman (2000) find? Steady decline in effect size over years 24 of 25 What does this suggest? Phenomena was not real 25 of 25
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